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GEORGE SHATTUGK GATES, OF ATHOL MASSACHUSETTS.

HANDLE FOR TRUNKS, 8L0.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 294,988, dated March 11, 1884.

Application filed December 26, 1583. ,(No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE SI-IATTUCK GATES, of Athol, in the county of Worcester, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Handles for Trunks, 810.; and I,do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a front view, Figs. 2 and 3 longitudinal sections, and Fig. 4 a transverse section, of a trunk-handle embodying my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claim hereinafter presented.

In such drawings, A denotes astrip of leather or rawhide or other proper material, of suitable dimensions; and B is a thin spring or strip of spring metal, which may be doubled or folded near each end, as shown, such metallic strip or spring being of proper tensile strength, and

laid flatwise on the strip A and extended from end to end thereof. 0 is a covering, of leather or other proper material, extending around the said two strips, and firmly sewed or otherwise fixed to the strip A. E E are two metal,- lic pockets, formed as shown. They are to be fastened to a trunk by nails or screws going through holes a in their flanges b. The two strips, arranged and covered as described, are to be inserted endwise into the two pockets, and are to have headed studs 0 0 arranged in and extended through them, as shown in Fig. 2, such studs being also extended into slots d d, formed in the said pockets, in manner as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3.

From the above it will be seen that the metallic strip, besides serving to force the handle flatwise against the trunk end G, to which the pockets may be fastened, and allowing of it being subsequently easily drawn away therefrom by the hand of a person, answers, when it is so drawn away, as a re-enforce or stay to the strap A, to keep it in shape and prevent it from being broken apart while the trunk may be in the act of being lifted by the handle.

In moving the handle either up to or away from the trunk end, the studs will slide or move making such a handle; or, in the place of leather or rawhide for the strip A, sometimes thick webbing may be used to advantage.

I am aware that a shawl-strap has been pro 'vided with a leather handle re-enforced by a wire frame. My handle is re-enforced by a spring, so that the handle will be forced against the trunk and lie flat when not pulled out.

I claim A trunk-handle which consists of the metallie pockets E, having the horizontal slots d, in

combination with the flexible strip A, metallic spring 13, covering 0, and studs 0, the latter arranged in and passing through the strip and covering, and extending into the slots (1, as set forth.

GEORGE SHATTUGK GATES.

W'i tnesses:

R. H. EDDY, E. B. PRATT. 

